skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this was written e3d have released a nozzle that's particularly appropriate for this sort of use case: https://e3d-online.com/products/revo-belt-nozzles

It's originally designed for belt printers but the extra clearance works here too.
> I have a hunch that AI assisted translations are going to revolutionize the literary world in the next few years. There's a huge opportunity for publishers to broaden their markets for already proven authors to essentially the entire planet. Of course that won't make things any easier for new authors.

They're already good enough for a tiny language like Norwegian, that I've considered using it for my own books (I'm Norwegian, but write in English, to my editor's chagrin - my English is good but I still make many stupid mistakes especially when tired). They're not good enough not to have a native reader read through the result and edit, hence why I'd only consider using it for my native Norwegian so far. I wouldn't dare try to use it for French or German, even though I read both, as my command of those languages isn't good enough that I'd trust myself to catch more subtle problems.

But I agree with you - it won't take much before they'll at least drastically cut the cost of translations even if you need a translator to clean up the result.

There's no way translating my novels to a smaller language would pay off at current prices - I'd need English sales several times higher before I'd consider it realistic for it to break even in most other languages. I don't much care about making money from them, but I'm not going to do it if I can only expect to lose money. If I can get translations at, say 1/10th of current costs, I might well end up having them translated to 10-20 languages or more.
can we still bark up the wrong tree in a more inclusive web?
Give me Mac OS bootup on iPad and I am in

Don’t get the hype of the performance and being locked to iPad ecosystem
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> Every UB could very well be wrapped in error checking

Not in C and C++. How would you check that a pointer is safe to dereference for example?
Just because 'undefined behaviour' means 'theoretically anything can happen' doesn't mean that it will happen in practice. You also don't need to summon the UB ghosts to delete all your files, a regular logic bug works just as well, even in a language without any UB.

In older compilers, UB behaviour was a lot more predictable because the code transformations done by optimizing compilers were by far not as complex as today.

In the C standard, 'undefined behaviour' is basically a catch-all phrase for a lot of different things: from badly designed stdlib function that miss obvious security checks (like gets()) to the compiler generating non-sensical code.

The latter is what's much more dangerous. It's trivial to just not use the C stdlib functions, but code generation problems caused by UB are much harder to catch.
What I don't get is, why are we still adding more undefined behaviour to the standard?

Because it allows flexibility for compilers to implement features efficiently on various platforms.

You can define undefined behavior if you wish. Make your own unreachable that prints an error and aborts gracefully when reached in debug builds, and calls std::unreachable in release builds.
I like the color coded equations, I wish they would become a thing. We have syntax highlighting for programming languages, it's time we have it for math too.
China couldnt produce ballpens utill around 2017.

If companies can defend themselves against espionage and/or takeovers there can be a moat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...
Space-time? Why limit too space, meta-time is so much more interesting.
You need a bit of both old and new surely? I'd argue, that great literature, whether for kids or adults, is timeless. Our daughter loved learning Greek legends for example in school. The challenge I think with modern stuff can be, finding the good stuff amongst the crp. Whereas classic stuff has stood the test of time, the crp has mostly fallen by the wayside.
Gemini 1.5 Pro public release
1 million token context window. Multi modal inputs. This must be costing Google a fortune to offer free inference with a window of this size. ~200mm USD training costs alone by recent estimates from Stanford(if memory serves).

I'd recommend throwing some thick documentation at it. Images must be uploaded separately. If you use the full window, expect lengthy inference compute times. I've been highly impressed so far. Greatly expands capability for my daily use cases. They say they've stretched it to 10M in research.
Airliner glide ratios fall between 15 and 20, which is comparable with cheapest immediately post-war training gliders for category B, aka the gliders you put a student pilot to learn how to make turns before the advent of two-seater trainer gliders.

And that 15 to 20 glide ratio is for best possible condition.
That one doesn't work, because archive.org isn't great at bypassing paywalls. Use this one: https://archive.is/9DB2K

Previous discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40216986
> Part of the reason why Diaryland died was that Smales could never figure out how to translate the site's pool of users into actual profit.

Here's the instruction manual used by Facebook, Twitter, and everyone else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I'm impressed that Diaryland didn't decide to grind up its users and turn them into money. For that reason alone, it is immediately (and probably permanently) superior to Facebook and Xitter.
Polish forums were the same. You'd have someone make a spelling error and everyone would just disregard their argument.
For civilization this is honestly a great thing. I would love if there were two ASMLs in geographically diverse regions. Even better that they are not encumbered by the same intellectual property regime. It will lead to high end chips being more ubiquitous and cheaper.
One problem with this is that we have no idea what the tax code will look like in 50+ years, when the kid is pulling money out. It’s quite possible that Roth accounts (which are funded with post tax contributions) will no longer be tax free for withdrawals, for example. I could easily see this being walked back for high-income folks, as a way to pay off the enormous debt we are currently incurring.
If we look simply at network growth in economic terms, Bitcoin is only going to attract larger and larger sums of money. This halving epoch we now have institutional investors (ETFs) and once it has proven itself at that level, the next stage will be nations openly buying it.

So even if fees increase in fiat terms, so will the size of the transactions. Enough to take the market cap far, far beyond that of gold. Once bitcoin has grown to the point that its value has stabilised, there will be substantial demand for transacting in it directly and there will naturally be a lot more work invested into higher-level payment networks/solutions. Right now though, Gresham's law sees to it that most people are happier to hoard than spend and that's likely to be case until bitcoin is at least $10M/BTC
On libstdc++ std::unreachable() also reliably crashes if you define either _GLIBCXX_DEBUG or _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS. libc++ should have a similar macro. I expect MS STL to also reliably crash on debug builds here, as it's quite heavy on debug assertions in the standard library anyway by default (and debug and release builds are explicitly not ABI compatible there).
That you read a lot might well make you an outlier in terms of what you're willing to read.

I read a lot too, in bursts, and I find that while I do have some strong preferences where it's hard to find stuff I really like, I'm flexible enough that I certainly can find a neverending stream of books that are "good enough".

But a lot of people have really high thresholds for how interesting a book need to sound to them for them to even consider it.
Thanks for the feedback, I can add matrix support in the future versions.
They were in almost universal agreement that raising the minimum wage caused unemployment until the mid 90s too. Where the interests of capital are at stake their vision of reality is distorted.

They're one of the few types of scientists who are essentially paid to be wrong by people who benefit from the policy decisions that result as a side effect of them being wrong.

The strictest rent controls in NYC in the last 80 years were in the 1950s. The fastest rate of home building in NYC was also in the 1950s. It didn't hurt then, it won't hurt now.
Interesting. Having grown up in Sweden during the 80-ties and 90-ties I’m very familiar with this attitude. Here and back then it was almost policy to hold gifted students back, to promote “equality”. But I thought the US would have a higher tolerance for ability.

What do you think is the driving psychological force behind this attitude in US schools? In Sweden I’ve always thought it’s mainly a sort of crab mentality, semi-formalized in “the law of Jante”. But maybe there’s more to it, if it happens also in very individualistic cultures like the US?

Sometimes I get a feeling that many people in the “helping business” have trouble with self-sufficient people in general, perhaps because it conflicts with their self-image as “helpers”.

P.S. Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden.
I’m not anti-union, but I’m not pro-union either.

I was in a union, Teamsters in fact. It protected crappy workers, prevented any change to work processes that might save time and put a low ceiling on high performing workers.

Not all unions are like that, but they certainly aren’t panaceas to all workers ills (in fact, sometimes they are the cause of new ones).
Not if you have any special edition joycons, they'll just send you a generic replacement.
Calling it a hint is very much over-simplifying things as there are also restrictions on what a constexpr function is and is not allowed to do, although those restrictions become fewer and fewer as time goes on as compilers are so advanced that they can emulate more system level things at compile time.

Also, constexpr on a variable is not a hint - it must be evaluated at compile time, where-as a constexpr function will be evaluated at either compile time or runtime depending on the context and arguments passed to it. For a function that you either want to work at compile time or not at all (compile error), consteval is the hardened version.

Yes, sadly this means "constexpr" variables and "consteval" functions must be calculated at compile time, while "constexpr" functions can be used both at compile time and runtime. An annoying distinction.
A service would arise so you could outsource that inconvenience for a small fee.
Disclaimer: I'm shared first author of this paper.

As a clarification: The speed for training will be on par with FlashAttention-2, when fully optimized and only including the mLSTM. For decoding/inference both are very close to Mamba as xLSTM is a recurrent architecture. The sLSTM has memory mixing, that is state tracking capabilities, for problems Transformers and State Space Models (and any other sequence-parallelizable architecture) cannot solve fundamentally.
Pretty much, yeah https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPad_Mini
I expect US hardware companies shares to start falling in about 10 years. I don't think it will take China more than that to reach parity on semiconductor manufacturing.

After that we will see a flood of lower cost hardware coming to the rest of the world, CPUs, GPUs, AI chips. That will put pressure on Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and the likes.

I'd invest in US tech companies for the next few years and after that move to Asian companies.
What stops authors doing that is that most authors struggle to sell 50 copies at far lower price point no matter how much effort they put in because most books just aren't interesting enough to enough people to be easy enough to sell without it turning into gruntwork paying far below minimum wage.

Congratulations, you're a massive success as an author, having sold more than most authors will. That's amazing.

But consider that most authors have no interests in writing business / self help books, and most who do still fail spectacularly because having success with those kinds of books tends to happen primarily if you already have an audience and a track record in the field you're writing about. E.g. the perceived value of your book is 99% your story about your track record, and most would-be authors don't have that track record.
Hyperworlds – Web Replacement Projects
Your grandparents’ house must be huge. We never had a room just for books, not me, not my parents, not their parents. A family of 4 in 2 bedrooms, one living room. Shelves are not expensive and you’d be surprised, they can fit quite a lot of books. Over time some books were lent or given to libraries, others added.
Discord in 2024 is perceptually slower than an IRC client running in 2000 on hardware with 1000x fewer MIPS.

Socially it's OK, as a piece of software it's dire.
Just click on a term to be redirected to an explanation.
Why does Apple hurry to push M4 before A18 Pro?
Who can support the hypotheses below?
1) M3 follows M2 and A16 Pro in part, and
2) M4 follows M2 and A17 Pro.
This is not the issue. The issue is that some people (like, probably Kubrick) will abuse this.

There is nothing wrong in loyalty. What is wrong is unilateral loyalty.
When I started my first job in 1995, the old hands were still using DEC ALL-IN-1 [0] from terminals on their desks but it was in the process of being phased out (for Microsoft Mail or something on Windows for Workgroups), so I never got to use it myself.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1
I roast my own with a heat gun.

5 mins or under and it’s scorched, 10 mins or over and it’s baked. I want in the middle.

Too dark and oily and it’s not great. Too light and I miss the bitterness and it tastes weak. I need to stir it a lot or the roast is uneven. I spray water on it at the end to arrest the roasting.
I think something like Unity or Gamemaker or even Scratch fills that niche now. They are a bit more game-focused than Hypercard (which was really more of an early iteration on the web), but, I think, capture a similar feeling of empowerment and creativity among nerdy young people as Hypercard did for nerdy young me.
No, it's the former that's more dangerous, and it has been there from the beginning. Every time you dereference a bad pointer (already free'd, corrupted, badly casted, ...), every time you go over the bounds of some array, every time you read memory that hasn't been initialized, every time you (write) access the same memory from two threads without synchronization, etc. - this is the bread and butter of binary exploitation. Exploits are fully expected under C/C++ spec, after all the behavior is undefined.
Livecode is a cross-platform commercial product that pretty much satisfies all the requirements of a HyperCard user but with 2024 tech and features
They mean that this OS only runs iPad apps, it doesn't let you run the kind of software you expect to take full advantage of the CPU.
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Focus on what really matters – building more boilerplates!
In another thread I likened the current era of AI to playing with PovRay in the 1990s to render "Amazing raytraced 3D graphics!" at a snails pace, with pixels crawling across the screen left-to-right, top-to-bottom over hours or days. Some of use got very excited even back then, because it gave us a peek at a likely future or real-time photo-realistic 3D graphics. We're there now, a mere three decades later.

I expect the pace of AI research to be vaguely similar. In three decades, we'll have interactive generative VR for sure. In the meantime, we'll hit a lot of fun milestones too. I suspect the first games that are real-time AI generated are not that far off. It's surprisingly easy to train AIs when there's simulation available as the ground truth, especially when that simulation can be modified to output per-pixel embeddings, not just noisy RGB sensor measurements like with video input training data.
For those who missed it: each item on the iceberg is actually a link that explains the topic in more detail.
It's primarily just higher expectations. People are richer than ever and expect more space.
so it is only bootc-enabled container https://centos.github.io/centos-bootc/

So only CentOS? Would it be possible to run that with firecracker? If that is the case, then wouldn't it be better to just run a Docker/container file in a firecracker vm. It will be more isolation, and easier scripting and networking?
isn't it time to make away with hyperbole "pro" and "max" and "plus" naming? it has gotten stupid now
Congratulations on the paper. That's some very interesting work!

But you would want to include sLSTM as well to get the best performance, right? How does the speed compares in that case? Specifically when scaling up.
The shareholders care about stock price and dividends, and those aren't necessarily linked to company actually growing.

Ultimately, for a lot of publicly held companies, quite often the "boss making the decision" is an excel sheet on some analysts desk that will result in a specific pressure being applied on company.
A general strike has a lot of power. Which is why they are banned in many countries.
Hmm, how would that look like? Like this?

if ((val < min) || (val >= max)) {
__builtin_unreachable();
}
switch (val) {
...
}

I haven't actually tried that, but if it works as intended it would actually be better yeah (not really in the case where I'm using it, because I'm switching on an integer, not an enum).
The Google payments are an interesting one; I don't think it's a simple "Google pays them to prefer them", but a "Google pays them to stop them from building a competitor".

Apple is in the position to build a competing search product, but the amount Google pays is the amount of money they would have to earn from it, and that is improbable even if it means they can set their own search engine as default.
I have no idea about what this is, so going off topic:

The name XLSTM reminds me of the time in the late eighties when my university professor got accepted to hold a presentation on WOM: write-only memory.
What do you mean?
Just check if it's not null?
This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say as a European how crazy it is to keep finding out the US is so large that even some third-tier city I ± never heard of is big enough to have a downtown full of outright skyscrapers[0]! It reminds me of reading about some minor Indian city and then looking it up in Wikipedia and seeing it has a population in the millions.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Ka...
I never got into reading web-native writing, though sometimes I wish I did. I also don’t piecemeal publishing, even though I know many classics were published that way initially. On the contrary, I like to read for as long as I want, finishing a book is always frustrating.

Agreed, LLMs are an issue and will probably reduce the amount of written content published in the open (or at all).
Because language isn’t about being understood by the lowest common denominator, it’s about expressing ideas and feelings. Sloppiness of language results in sloppiness of thought. If language were purely about being understood by others, then we culd rite lyke dis all da tyme.

It is also just disgraceful and disrespectful toward something as magnificent and powerful as language, akin to scribbling on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. It’s one thing to know the rules and intelligently break them in a novel way, but the lack of correctness we’re talking about is merely laziness.

Just to reiterate here: the issue isn’t so much about minor unintended errors, it’s about the attitude that minor errors are acceptable and that aspiring for some kind of excellence is discouraged.
If I'm understanding your point correctly that wouldn't prevent them from offering higher ram specs for the lower storage eg. 512 gig macs. So it seems like it is just price gouging
Compared to Denmark or Germany ( one third communist !) UK is poor.
Sounds like you are the snarky hipster. The barista didnt know this process and didnt have it on menu. In their eyes its just strange request asking for trouble.

I think of myself as very knowledgable barista and this is first time i am hearing this. I checked usual resources like James Hoffman and nobody is even mentioning heated cold brew. So its very niche and sounds more like something from camping.

I believe you that health wise its for some people better. But cold brew overall is not that popular with coffee fans because the coffee is underexttacted - it tastes ok but you will get more flavours using hot water. Its kinda waste to use high quality coffee on cold brew. But thats where i personally like cold brew - with lower quality coffee it can taste better than hot extraction.
ok guess it's a dupe :(
Housing prices rose much, much faster than inflation or rises in wages. So they are obviously not driven by income. Try again.
It's going to get worse. ;-(
What is the "Easter egg in this article"?
What about ECC for the logic circuits of CPUs? Like, some form of redundancy that enables detection and correction of logical errors caused by some kind of malfunctioning in circuits that do computation (perhaps caused by cosmic rays or something)
The person who started critical changes in culture was a Boeing lifer - who also merged in McDonnel-Douglas.
> The magic was due to the friction involved.

We might get some of that friction back if remote attestation succeeds in ruining the Internet for those of us who rely on free software. Connecting with any community will be trickier over mesh networking or whatever else we're left with.
For some reason "influencer" is considered good, but "advertiser" is not.

Though youtube promoting videos that make money is an unsurprising feedback loop.
ReCAPTCHA Bypassing Solver
For what kind of data? For what kinds of queries?

If the columns are scalar then consider a column store.
The thread seem to be missing even stronger case, that was true for me: making otherwise fun things mandatory, period. The volume doesn't matter; that a book was assigned as mandatory at all deterred me from reading it. Same with homework, which I was spectacularly good at avoiding.
yes but will it blend?
Because Bush Jr. government policy ordered them to and reduced funding for inspections.
TLDR explanation:

- User connects to an untrusted network (public wifi).

- That network uses DHCP to assign IP address for the user.

- A malicious DHCP would push static routes via DHCP that are more specific than a common default route, and send traffic via a malicious gateway.

- User connects to his/her VPN thinking his/her traffic is secured over the insecure network.

- The malicious static routes, being more specific, take precedence over the default route added by the VPN.
Please, I'm still not over the trauma.
It might be interesting to contrast with an earlier OS for the web - Sun Microstems Jini.